Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic

Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
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ISBN-10 : 9789027267955
ISBN-13 : 9027267952
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Book Synopsis Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic by : Axel Holvoet

Download or read book Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic written by Axel Holvoet and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume in the VARGReB series deals with voice in the wider sense, encompassing both alternations that preserve semantic valency, with passives as the most typical instance, and valency-changing devices such as the causative. Regarding the former, special attention is given to event-structural conditions on passivization, non-canonical passives, and the relation between passives and (active) impersonals. Papers dealing with causatives focus on valency patterns and argument marking in canonical as well as extended uses of causative morphology. Other articles consider converse constructions and the argument structure of middles, which seem to hold a position between voice in the narrow sense and valency-changing operations. An introductory article provides background information on the repertoire of voice alternations in Baltic from a cross-linguistic perspective. Representing different approaches and methods, the contributions to this volume offer fine-grained analyses of data from contemporary Latvian and Lithuanian.


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